| madskillz said: Over the PS3's 3 year span, I can't tell you the number of threads I've seen where folks are yappin' about the PS3's big break. I even remember when NJ5 had in his sig - PS3 domination starts in ... and there were several titles and events crossed out. [1] The PS3 is still in third. Yes, the console will cut into the 360s lead, but reality is - Sony is still losing tons of money. When the financials come out, they'll still won't see a profit. And to think Sony is going to dig itself out of the hole they dug - and keep this steady pace while the 360, which IS making $$$ for MS, just stops selling? Wow. I just grin so much when I see statements like that. [2]
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1. PS3 doesn't and hasn't needed a big break. It's sold plenty well, faster than 360 over the same period. The 'break' that will spur sales is a price break, as we all know. MS can still counter (and the only way they can counter is) with another price break of their own.
2. Yet MS has lost billions overall in the business, so if MS making money for some reason makes you feel good about the 360 and how much fun it is...yeah, at least they are chipping away at their overall debt! Convenient that at this moment you don't care so much about sales, but about profit. Plus, recall that RRoD and other repair expenses are not included in the accounting for MS's electronic devices unit or whatever it's called.
You grin so much at the hopefulness of fanboys, I grin at worse hardware, expensive proprietary peripherals, slower sales, pay-to-play online, and an all-time $7billion loss in the gaming business.
Note that I would only have posted as I did in my shorter post above, but hey, your spin needs some counterspin.
